Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 05:34 -0800, John W. Krahn wrote:
You shouldn't "do something with $line" if $bytes_read is undefined:

while ( my $bytes_read = read PATTERN, $line, 1920 ) {
     unless ( defined $bytes_read ) {
         die "error reading $filename: $!";
         }
     # do something with $line
     }

undef is false.

Yes it is.  And your question is ...?



John
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